Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-10-11
A MAD -MAGNATE,
OR A BATCH OF GOTHAM REPORT.
oRIAl RooRBACKS.

Alleged Errstic Conduct of the Recent
Boss of the Baltimore 4 Ohio-In Ca
Gonld His Nemesis-What His Physi-
clan Says About It.
New YORK, Oct 1.-THE Tribune says:
There is reason to believe that Mr. Garrett
was greatly surprised on his arrival from
Europe Friday to learn that the Baltimore Il
Ohio telegraph lines had been sold and de-
iivered to the Western Union company with
in twenty -four hours of his landing. Soon
after his arrival Mr. Garrett was in eonsulta-
ton with his principal subordinates, from
whom he must have learned the facts OF the
sale and actual transfer OF the telegraph
property. His statements later in the day
that he had not signed any papers may have
been susceptible of double meaning, but
they formed the groundwork for newspaper
story which aroused doubt about the legality
of the sale
Mo. CARROTS eccentric actions prevented
ary sober discussion of business matters with
him, and on Sunday his friends were anxious
chiefly to remove him from the excitement
into which he hid been thrown. 1t was only
by strategy, no viewer, that they succeeded
in getting him board train for Balti
more good many stories about him were
reported in Wall street Monday, 1t is related
that he said of his future plans:
Il am going to pay the debts of the prince
of Wales, who will come over here and run
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, which | have
given him have boughs palace in Mex
leo and l am going down there to manage
that country" 1t was said also that he
sent for Robert Stuart, who used to
be manager of his telegraph lines and
is now in the employ of the Western Union
company, and that when Mr. Stuart entered
his room at the Brevoort house Mr. Garrett
seized him by the coat collar with both
hands and, shouting to someone to lock the
door, said to him: 'Jay Gould has been fol-
lowing me for years, and you hive been help
ing him to do it, I'll settle with you now"
A gentleman whose position is high in the
financial and business world, said Monday:
81 fear that Mr.. Garrett is insane. | saw to-
day telegram from gentleman who saw
Mr. Garrett in Baltimore, and who tele
graphed on here that he was insane An
other gentleman who saw Mr.. Garrett before
he left the city says that he has lost control
of his mental faculties. He heard him talk,
aud talked with him, and Mr. Garrett did
not do much drinking while he with
him.
-Can not MIR CARROTS action and words
lie explained on theory Of convivial indul
genceP was suggested
No, fear not" was the reply. "From
all | hear and know it looks like the other
cause believe that Mr. CARROTS condi-
ton WAS aggravated by the worry and anx-
iety that heset him at the time that he went
to the syndicate for hep.
BALTIMORE, Oct II. Mr.. Robert Garrett
spent Monday at the Frick house, Baltimore
county, in the evening, accompanied by Mr.
| William r trlck, he drove into the city and
| spent some time at the Baltimore club When
Questioned he sand he felt very well, now that
he had gotten over the fatigue of travel In
| speaking OF the persisteucy of the New York
reporters, an intimate friend of
his said: "lhis bounding has gone on
50 long and to such an sx-
tent that his life is in danger of being made
more miserable than that of the worst GRIM
inal within the wiids of the land" DIR, A
| p Smith, who Is Mr.. CARROTS physician,
Monday said to a reporter when questioned
as to the truth of the statements made in
some of the papers that Mr. Garrett had been
sent to this city in charge of two physicians
suffering from a mental complication:
| Il always attend Mr. Garrett when he is
| sick. have heard nothing from him since
he returned from Europe, and | can not
imagine that there is anything at all the mat
ter with him" Mr. Garrett returned to his
country place Monday night